Wikipedia, the Last Bastion of Shared Reality

Because no one else is doing it--not even the media.
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Wikipedia, the Last Bastion of Shared Reality

Post by CrowsNest » Wed Aug 08, 2018 7:02 pm

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/ ... ia/566897/

It's ironic in the extreme that this article actually contains the statement.......
Over the years, Jeong has angrily and colorfully tweeted hundreds of times about her frustrations with white people
The current reality of Wikipedia, is one where this statement is wholly inadmissible to the historical record scrolls that are Wikipedia's articles. As a piece of contextual knowledge, one that surely everyone on all sides can agree is true, it may as well not exist. Even though it does exist, and will do for years to come, whenever anyone Google's this person's name and a few key words.

Larry Sanger had a vision of neutrality, namely that people would be allowed to see reliably sourced facts like this in Wikipedia, especially if they appeared in sources who can be assumed to be neutral or even supportive of the person being referred to, as this one clearly is. The reader would then be left to decide if that meant they were a racist or a victim or somewhere inbetween - she can of course, be both a racist and a victim of racism.

Unless you think racism against white people simply isn't possible, as some Wikipedians do......

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =854043312

The reality of Wikipedia today, is that the liberals and leftists have decided that Larry's vision is just too dangerous. As such, you will not be seeing this sentence, or anything like it, in Wikipedia any time soon. Most likely never.

You want reality? Go elsewhere. Christ, read The Atlantic. You may not agree with its conclusions, but they at least let you know the facts.

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Re: Wikipedia, the Last Bastion of Shared Reality

Post by ericbarbour » Wed Aug 08, 2018 7:19 pm

"The culture wars are coming" MY ASS. It started out as a culture war and it will die as a culture war. I've never been much impressed by Mr. Madrigal's writing, he's a classic Wired-style "tech is magic" propagandist type.

But at least we got something from the Atlantic about Wikipedia editwars. This once. Now if they would talk more about the thousands of other ruinous editwars on the thing.

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Re: Wikipedia, the Last Bastion of Shared Reality

Post by tyc » Wed Nov 28, 2018 5:55 am

Wikipedia selectively will cite BLP protections when it comes to protecting left-wing icons, but completely ignore BLP protections when it comes to accusing anyone else of a crime.

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